Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Marriage on the Web
Yesterday I happened to run across the Web site Googlefight during the course of my job duties (ahem). It surprises me that I haven't heard of it before now. Its home page offers two text boxes into which you enter search terms. It uses Google to search for both terms and then tells you how many hits each term received. The one with more hits wins. Thus,
Bush
(37 500 000 results ) |
defeats |
Gore
(12 800 000 results) |
Friends
(71 200 000 results) |
defeats
|
"War and Peace"
(1 120 000 results) |
I thought it would be interesting to see how marriage issues fare in a Googlefight. Here are the results:
happy marriage
(2 550 000 results) |
defeats
|
happy divorce
(2 010 000 results) |
faithful spouse
(113 000 results) |
defeats
|
cheating spouse
(65 200 results) |
happy wives
(2 400 000 results) |
defeats
|
miserable wives
(96 500 results) |
wife is my best friend
(16 400 000 results ) |
defeats
|
wife is my worst enemy
(2 450 000 results) |
There are, of course, no conclusions to be drawn from this. The first result for the search wife is my best friend is a page titled I married my best friend's wife. Still, I was surprised at the results.
